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Members and guests discuss a wide range of topics across paediatrics and child health. Episodes are available on or podcast website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

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'Leading the way' episode 4 - layers of learning

15 October 2025

What's at the heart of leadership? For Dal Hothi, it's about being authentic but it's also about learning to be vulnerable - to admit when we don’t have the answers and to let go of our “armour”. Jonathan presents key messages from this podcast episode.

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'Leading the way' episode 3 - seizing opportunities as a resident doctor

17 September 2025

An opportunity that presents itself to you might be small or significant, but it's always worth noticing. In the third episode of our leadership series, Jonathan spoke with Dr Josh Hodgson, new Trainee Committee Chair, about how his journey into leadership began.

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'Leading the way' episode 2 - starting small, thinking big

13 August 2025

Step out of your comfort zone, encourage others, simply show up with integrity: leadership doesn’t always mean taking centre stage. Jonathan spoke with Dr Emma Dyer as she completes her tenure as Trainee Committee Chair, in this second episode of our podcast series.

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'Leading the way' episode 1 - reflections on serendipity, passion and thriving teams

16 July 2025

The first episode of our new podcast series features Dr Simon Broughton, Officer for Recruitment and general paediatrician. Simon spoke with Jonathan, host of this monthly series of leadership conversations, about his career and ways in which "leadership is for everyone".

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Introducing our upcoming podcast on leadership conversations

14 July 2025

Wherever we are in our careers as health professionals, we all lead, says Dr Jonathan Darling. So, how can we lead better? Jonathan trails our new monthly podcast, 'Leading the way', featuring thought-provoking conversations all about leadership.

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Our blueprint for transforming child health services - six months on: our podcast

2 May 2025

Dr Ronny Cheung, Officer for Health Services (pictured), joins Alison Firth, Head of Health Policy, and Bruce Warwick, Public Affairs Manager, for a lively discussion on how our landmark report has helped secure commitments to deliver care equitably for children at a national and local level.

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Child health and climate change episode 3: Nepal

16 October 2024

In this final episode of our podcast series on the changing climate, this mountainous country is seeing extreme temperature fluctuations, landslides and air pollution, endangering communities and impacting healthcare. But, there are some lessons around adaptation, as our guests who work or have volu...

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Child health and climate change episode 2: Canada

9 October 2024

Floods, heatwaves and wildfires have become increasingly common across Canada. And as retired paediatrician Dr Julian Pleydell-Pearce explains in this episode of our climate change podcast series, this makes a profound impact on the lives of children and young people - and the way health services ar...

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Child health and climate change episode 1: Uganda

2 October 2024

Less predictable weather in this east African country has led to food shortages and skyrocketing prices. There are broader consequences for children's health, too, as Eva Odongpiny, a local pharmacist, discusses with us in this first episode of our podcast series.

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Our voices: My condition &... going beyond the clinical

5 June 2024

RCPCH &Us Podcasts is created by young volunteers with RCPCH &Us and focuses on the vibrancy and multi-dimensional nature of children and young people. The episode highlights the need for healthcare and education professionals to see beyond children and young people’s conditions when working with th...